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How Did The Louisiana Purchase Impact The Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution has frequently been depicted as the biggest and best slave rebellion in the west. Slaves started the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had prevailing with regards to the closure of slavery and French control in the colonies.The Louisiana Purchase in 1803, was a land bargain between the U.S. and France, in which the U.S. gained around 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi Stream for $15 million. A standout amongst the most focal occasions that impacted the Louisiana Purchase was the Haitian Revolution. The upset had begun in 1791, when the slaves who had given the work on sugar manors on the French province of Saint Domingue, rebelled against slavery. The slaves, the vast majority of whom were of African

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